Hurricane Noel Near Peak Intensity in 2007 COGwriter The BBC reported: Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 14:27 GMT… Severe flooding caused by weeks of heavy rain is now known to have left 48 people dead and some 40,000 families homeless, authorities in Bolivia say. Two rivers in one of the worst-hit provinces, Beni, have broken […]
Month: February 2008
“Christianity Today” on Ash Wednesday and Lent
Sola Scriptura or the Traditions of Men, Which Do You Choose? COGwriter Tonight is what Catholics, and now some Protestants, call Ash Wednesday. Christianity Today calls itself “A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction”. And while we in the Living Church of God are not part of the evangelical Protestant movement, I thought that evangelicals at […]
African History: How Long Has the Sabbath Been Observed in Africa?
African Hut COGwriter Christianity Today reported: Black History Month (U.S.A.) February … Read numerous informative articles, catch up with the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., and learn more about the spiritual journey of Africans in America. I would like to focus more on biblically-related history. The New Testament discusses in some detail the conversion […]
Carnival, Mardi Gras, & Lent
2007 Carnival at Pátio de São Pedro square, in Recife, Brazil COGwriter Tomorrow is known in some places as Mardi Gras (French for “Fat Tuesday”). According to Wikipedia: Carnival begins 12 days after Christmas, or Twelfth Night, on January 6 and ends on Mardi Gras, which always falls exactly 47 days before Easter. Perhaps […]
Valentine’s Day: Does it Honor the “Queen of Heaven”?
COGwriter In eleven days, many people who claim to believe the Bible will celebrate “Valentine’s Day”. But is Valentine’s Day biblically acceptable or is it a holiday in honor of “The Queen of Heaven”? Notice the following, The roots of Valentine’s Day can be traced back to pagan festivals of third century Rome. February 14th was […]
ICG’s Mark Armstrong on the USA Presidential Race
Hillary Rodham Clinton COGwriter Last night ICG’s Mark Armstrong sent out the following: Do I need to tell you that we are in the middle of one of the most disgusting, disheartening political campaigns in memory? The future of the U.S. is in more jeopardy than at any time since the ignominy of the […]
COGwriter: Top Ten In January 2008
The Above Map Show the Number of Internet Users Around the World By Country COGwriter January 2008 was a very good month overall for the COGwriter.com website. Compared to January 2007, the number of unique visitors and page views more than doubled. However, there still seems to be problems with our server and the site was […]